The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah

Chapter 67: Transcriber's note:

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The first half offers close literary and theological commentary on a biblical love-poem, weighing its structural puzzles, springtime imagery, pastoral versus courtly contrasts, tests of affection, and various mystical and canonical interpretations. The second half turns to a set of elegies, tracing their origin and providing verse-by-verse exegesis that attends to themes of desolation, communal guilt and suffering, prophetic failure, anguished appeals and prayer, and the interplay of judgment and hope. Throughout the commentary the writer balances detailed textual and linguistic observation with pastoral reflection, moving between close analysis and broader meditations on grief, repentance, and consolation.

Transcriber's note:

Page 45: A missing footnote anchor has been inserted after "union of Christ and his Church".

Page 267: Footnote 224 refers to Psalm xx. 6. This appears to be a printer error which has been changed to read Psalm xxxiv. 6.

Page 324: "... Old Testament times of to the passion excited by cruelty". "of" has been changed to "or".

Minor typographical errors and inconsistencies have been silently normalized. Archaic and variable spellings and hyphenation have been retained.

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